Reading Properties file with spaces in key

Iam currently using jdk1.4.
I have a to read a properties file containing text,

key = value
spaced key = spaced value

Can I set the delimiter that is to be used by Properties, in this case I would want only '=' as the delimiter and ignore whilte space between the keys.

Is there any way that I can acheive this in my code while creating the Properties object or invoking the load method?

Is there any alternate way of reading the key and value?

Thanks in advance.

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oops, did not intend to cause any extra work.
Shall remember that.

The way I am currently handling it is, that I am treating the file as just another file.

Reading the file using,
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));

and then performing String manipulation to get the key and value.

Would be interesting to know if it can be acheived by the Properties class without overriding the load method. Is there any way to do it using the API.

Thanks.